Re: High traffic squid testing

On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 02:12:18PM -0800, Jimi wrote:
> I was wondering what people use for testing their squid environments before
> implementing them. I was thinking of writing something on a fake "server"
> that would randomly generate web pages, and something to run on a client
> machine, simulating requests to it. I figure there must already be tools
> to do this, but I don't know for sure. Doing web searches has revealed
> some commercial windows packages, but nothing for Linux. Maybe I'll write
> something anyway, it will be fun...but it wouldn't hurt to run more than
> one type of test.

Polygraph does what you want here, and has become the standard web
cache benchmark. <http://polygraph.ircache.net/>

  -- Clifton

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